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saturate

  1. To fill all the voids between soil particles with a liquid.
  2. To form the most concentrated solution possible under a given set of physical conditions in the presence of an excess of the solute.
  3. To fill to capacity, as the adsorption complex with a cation species; for example, H-saturated .

saturer Source: Research Branch, 1976
Contact: Peter Schut